The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of other types of petrochemicals. Midstream is generally classified under the downstream category.
The largest volumes of products of the oil and gas industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is the primary material for a multitude of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, solvents, and plastics. Petroleum is therefore integral to many industries and is of critical importance to many nations as the foundation of their industries.
In recent years there has been a growing negative sentiment towards the oil and gas industry and "big energy". Major environmental disasters such as the Deepwater HorizonGulf Of Mexico Oil Spill have cast a negative spotlight upon the industry. The trend towards Renewable and Alternative energy is also another threat to traditional oil and gas companies. Coupled with the rise in pro-eco legislation and governmental pressure has meant the oil and gas industry is under more scrutiny than ever.

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the simplest terms, hydraulic fracturing is a way of getting more of the valuable fluids, like oil and natural gas, out of geologic formations under the ground.
Deep under earth’s surface, there are deposits of rock that have huge reserves of oil and natural gas within them. But these fossil fuels aren’t like big lakes where you can just stick a straw in and suck. No, these reserves of oil and natural gas are found locked up in pores distributed throughout vast layers of rock, like shale. So how do you get them out at a reasonable pace?
Let’s look at a typical fracking setup for something like shale gas: You start with a deep, vertical well, drilling a hole down to the level of the shale you want to mine.
The depth will vary, but just for example, one company claims its average fracking well depth is 7,700 feet. That’s deep: almost one and a half miles, or about 2.3 kilometers.
When you’re at the right depth, you take a 90-degree turn and continue to drill horizontally, parallel to the target rock layer. This horizontal section of the well can also travel thousands of feet. Now here’s where the “fracturing” comes in.
First, you open up holes in the horizontal section of the pipe. Then, you vigorously push a liquid cocktail known as fracking fluid down into the borehole under high pressure.
This fracking fluid is usually a mixture of water, some chemical additives -- like acids to help dissolve the rock, and gels to thicken the fluid -- and finally, solid particles called proppants – we’ll get to those in a second.
When the mixture reaches the horizontal section of the pipe, it bleeds out through the holes into the surrounding rock, and the extremely high pressure causes the rock to form tons of little fractures, or cracks. Through these cracks, the reserves of fossil fuels contained in the rock can escape into the well to be pumped back up to the surface.
What once was entombed in ancient rock is now on the way to powering your car or heating the water for your next shower. And those proppants I mentioned, which are often just grains of sand, help “prop” the cracks in the rock open, so the Earth’s precious bodily fluids continue to escape into the well without the miners applying continuous pressure.
So that’s how it works, but then there’s the entirely separate question of whether fracking is a good idea. It’s controversial in many parts of the world.
Some people claim it consumes too much fresh water, and worry about what will be done with the fracking fluid after it’s been used. And some opponents wonder if it will create earthquakes, or cause chemical contaminants to leak into our groundwater.
SOURCES:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htm/printable
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/how-hydraulic-fracturing-works/?ar_a=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538082/shale
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladrocks.htm
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/ChK_-Hydraulic_Fracturing_Fact_Sheet.pdf

published:29 Jan 2015

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Take a complete look at how Range develops Marcellus shale wells. We take a look at planning, drilling, completions and ultimately production from the shale formation.

published:12 Feb 2015

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Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

published:08 Nov 2018

views:551

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

published:07 May 2012

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Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

Overview Of Drilling Process

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of other types of petrochemicals. Midstream is generally classified under the downstream category.
The largest volumes of products of the oil and gas industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is the primary material for a multitude of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, solvents, and plastics. Petroleum is therefore integral to many industries and is of critical importance to many nations as the foundation of their industries.
In recent years there has been a growing negative sentiment towards the oil and gas industry and "big energy". Major environmental disasters such as the Deepwater HorizonGulf Of Mexico Oil Spill have cast a negative spotlight upon the industry. The trend towards Renewable and Alternative energy is also another threat to traditional oil and gas companies. Coupled with the rise in pro-eco legislation and governmental pressure has meant the oil and gas industry is under more scrutiny than ever.

Overview on Deep Water Drilling

What Is Fracking?

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htmShare on Facebook: http://goo.gl/M5kx1i
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the simplest terms, hydraulic fracturing is a way of getting more of the valuable fluids, like oil and natural gas, out of geologic formations under the ground.
Deep under earth’s surface, there are deposits of rock that have huge reserves of oil and natural gas within them. But these fossil fuels aren’t like big lakes where you can just stick a straw in and suck. No, these reserves of oil and natural gas are found locked up in pores distributed throughout vast layers of rock, like shale. So how do you get them out at a reasonable pace?
Let’s look at a typical fracking setup for something like shale gas: You start with a deep, vertical well, drilling a hole down to the level of the shale you want to mine.
The depth will vary, but just for example, one company claims its average fracking well depth is 7,700 feet. That’s deep: almost one and a half miles, or about 2.3 kilometers.
When you’re at the right depth, you take a 90-degree turn and continue to drill horizontally, parallel to the target rock layer. This horizontal section of the well can also travel thousands of feet. Now here’s where the “fracturing” comes in.
First, you open up holes in the horizontal section of the pipe. Then, you vigorously push a liquid cocktail known as fracking fluid down into the borehole under high pressure.
This fracking fluid is usually a mixture of water, some chemical additives -- like acids to help dissolve the rock, and gels to thicken the fluid -- and finally, solid particles called proppants – we’ll get to those in a second.
When the mixture reaches the horizontal section of the pipe, it bleeds out through the holes into the surrounding rock, and the extremely high pressure causes the rock to form tons of little fractures, or cracks. Through these cracks, the reserves of fossil fuels contained in the rock can escape into the well to be pumped back up to the surface.
What once was entombed in ancient rock is now on the way to powering your car or heating the water for your next shower. And those proppants I mentioned, which are often just grains of sand, help “prop” the cracks in the rock open, so the Earth’s precious bodily fluids continue to escape into the well without the miners applying continuous pressure.
So that’s how it works, but then there’s the entirely separate question of whether fracking is a good idea. It’s controversial in many parts of the world.
Some people claim it consumes too much fresh water, and worry about what will be done with the fracking fluid after it’s been used. And some opponents wonder if it will create earthquakes, or cause chemical contaminants to leak into our groundwater.
SOURCES:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htm/printable
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/how-hydraulic-fracturing-works/?ar_a=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538082/shale
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladrocks.htm
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/ChK_-Hydraulic_Fracturing_Fact_Sheet.pdf

49:39

Range Resources Marcellus Shale Field Tour

Range Resources Marcellus Shale Field Tour

Range Resources Marcellus Shale Field Tour

Take a complete look at how Range develops Marcellus shale wells. We take a look at planning, drilling, completions and ultimately production from the shale formation.

1:48

AC Ideal land drilling rig

AC Ideal land drilling rig

AC Ideal land drilling rig

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

2:38

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

2:08

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Solid Controls and Mud System on Land Rigs

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

6:37

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Includes Spanish subtitles. For more information, visit: http://www.marathonoil.com/Social_Responsibility/Environmental_Stewardship/Hydraulic_Fracturing/

Overview Of Drilling Process

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of o...

Overview on Deep Water Drilling

What Is Fracking?

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htmShare on Facebook: http://goo.gl/M5kx1i
Share on Twitter: http://goo.gl/FbuzEW
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the...

published: 29 Jan 2015

Range Resources Marcellus Shale Field Tour

Take a complete look at how Range develops Marcellus shale wells. We take a look at planning, drilling, completions and ultimately production from the shale formation.

published: 12 Feb 2015

AC Ideal land drilling rig

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

published: 08 Nov 2018

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

published: 07 May 2012

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Solid Controls and Mud System on Land Rigs

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

published: 07 Apr 2017

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Includes Spanish subtitles. For more information, visit: http://www.marathonoil.com/Social_Responsibility/Environmental_Stewardship/Hydraulic_Fracturing/

Overview Of Drilling Process

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (ex...

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of other types of petrochemicals. Midstream is generally classified under the downstream category.
The largest volumes of products of the oil and gas industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is the primary material for a multitude of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, solvents, and plastics. Petroleum is therefore integral to many industries and is of critical importance to many nations as the foundation of their industries.
In recent years there has been a growing negative sentiment towards the oil and gas industry and "big energy". Major environmental disasters such as the Deepwater HorizonGulf Of Mexico Oil Spill have cast a negative spotlight upon the industry. The trend towards Renewable and Alternative energy is also another threat to traditional oil and gas companies. Coupled with the rise in pro-eco legislation and governmental pressure has meant the oil and gas industry is under more scrutiny than ever.

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of other types of petrochemicals. Midstream is generally classified under the downstream category.
The largest volumes of products of the oil and gas industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is the primary material for a multitude of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, solvents, and plastics. Petroleum is therefore integral to many industries and is of critical importance to many nations as the foundation of their industries.
In recent years there has been a growing negative sentiment towards the oil and gas industry and "big energy". Major environmental disasters such as the Deepwater HorizonGulf Of Mexico Oil Spill have cast a negative spotlight upon the industry. The trend towards Renewable and Alternative energy is also another threat to traditional oil and gas companies. Coupled with the rise in pro-eco legislation and governmental pressure has meant the oil and gas industry is under more scrutiny than ever.

What Is Fracking?

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com:
http://s...

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htmShare on Facebook: http://goo.gl/M5kx1i
Share on Twitter: http://goo.gl/FbuzEW
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the simplest terms, hydraulic fracturing is a way of getting more of the valuable fluids, like oil and natural gas, out of geologic formations under the ground.
Deep under earth’s surface, there are deposits of rock that have huge reserves of oil and natural gas within them. But these fossil fuels aren’t like big lakes where you can just stick a straw in and suck. No, these reserves of oil and natural gas are found locked up in pores distributed throughout vast layers of rock, like shale. So how do you get them out at a reasonable pace?
Let’s look at a typical fracking setup for something like shale gas: You start with a deep, vertical well, drilling a hole down to the level of the shale you want to mine.
The depth will vary, but just for example, one company claims its average fracking well depth is 7,700 feet. That’s deep: almost one and a half miles, or about 2.3 kilometers.
When you’re at the right depth, you take a 90-degree turn and continue to drill horizontally, parallel to the target rock layer. This horizontal section of the well can also travel thousands of feet. Now here’s where the “fracturing” comes in.
First, you open up holes in the horizontal section of the pipe. Then, you vigorously push a liquid cocktail known as fracking fluid down into the borehole under high pressure.
This fracking fluid is usually a mixture of water, some chemical additives -- like acids to help dissolve the rock, and gels to thicken the fluid -- and finally, solid particles called proppants – we’ll get to those in a second.
When the mixture reaches the horizontal section of the pipe, it bleeds out through the holes into the surrounding rock, and the extremely high pressure causes the rock to form tons of little fractures, or cracks. Through these cracks, the reserves of fossil fuels contained in the rock can escape into the well to be pumped back up to the surface.
What once was entombed in ancient rock is now on the way to powering your car or heating the water for your next shower. And those proppants I mentioned, which are often just grains of sand, help “prop” the cracks in the rock open, so the Earth’s precious bodily fluids continue to escape into the well without the miners applying continuous pressure.
So that’s how it works, but then there’s the entirely separate question of whether fracking is a good idea. It’s controversial in many parts of the world.
Some people claim it consumes too much fresh water, and worry about what will be done with the fracking fluid after it’s been used. And some opponents wonder if it will create earthquakes, or cause chemical contaminants to leak into our groundwater.
SOURCES:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htm/printable
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/how-hydraulic-fracturing-works/?ar_a=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538082/shale
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladrocks.htm
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/ChK_-Hydraulic_Fracturing_Fact_Sheet.pdf

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htmShare on Facebook: http://goo.gl/M5kx1i
Share on Twitter: http://goo.gl/FbuzEW
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the simplest terms, hydraulic fracturing is a way of getting more of the valuable fluids, like oil and natural gas, out of geologic formations under the ground.
Deep under earth’s surface, there are deposits of rock that have huge reserves of oil and natural gas within them. But these fossil fuels aren’t like big lakes where you can just stick a straw in and suck. No, these reserves of oil and natural gas are found locked up in pores distributed throughout vast layers of rock, like shale. So how do you get them out at a reasonable pace?
Let’s look at a typical fracking setup for something like shale gas: You start with a deep, vertical well, drilling a hole down to the level of the shale you want to mine.
The depth will vary, but just for example, one company claims its average fracking well depth is 7,700 feet. That’s deep: almost one and a half miles, or about 2.3 kilometers.
When you’re at the right depth, you take a 90-degree turn and continue to drill horizontally, parallel to the target rock layer. This horizontal section of the well can also travel thousands of feet. Now here’s where the “fracturing” comes in.
First, you open up holes in the horizontal section of the pipe. Then, you vigorously push a liquid cocktail known as fracking fluid down into the borehole under high pressure.
This fracking fluid is usually a mixture of water, some chemical additives -- like acids to help dissolve the rock, and gels to thicken the fluid -- and finally, solid particles called proppants – we’ll get to those in a second.
When the mixture reaches the horizontal section of the pipe, it bleeds out through the holes into the surrounding rock, and the extremely high pressure causes the rock to form tons of little fractures, or cracks. Through these cracks, the reserves of fossil fuels contained in the rock can escape into the well to be pumped back up to the surface.
What once was entombed in ancient rock is now on the way to powering your car or heating the water for your next shower. And those proppants I mentioned, which are often just grains of sand, help “prop” the cracks in the rock open, so the Earth’s precious bodily fluids continue to escape into the well without the miners applying continuous pressure.
So that’s how it works, but then there’s the entirely separate question of whether fracking is a good idea. It’s controversial in many parts of the world.
Some people claim it consumes too much fresh water, and worry about what will be done with the fracking fluid after it’s been used. And some opponents wonder if it will create earthquakes, or cause chemical contaminants to leak into our groundwater.
SOURCES:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htm/printable
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/how-hydraulic-fracturing-works/?ar_a=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538082/shale
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladrocks.htm
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/ChK_-Hydraulic_Fracturing_Fact_Sheet.pdf

AC Ideal land drilling rig

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brin...

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling ver...

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process redu...

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil...

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Includes Spanish subtitles. For more information, visit: http://www.marathonoil.com/Social_Responsibility/Environmental_Stewardship/Hydraulic_Fracturing/

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Includes Spanish subtitles. For more information, visit: http://www.marathonoil.com/Social_Responsibility/Environmental_Stewardship/Hydraulic_Fracturing/

Overview Of Drilling Process

The oil and gas industry can be broken down into three key areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
The Upstream component is also referred to as the E&P (exploration and exploration). This involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling of exploration wells and drilling into established wells to recover oil and gas.
Downstream refers to the filtering of the raw materials obtained during the upstream phase. This means refining crude oil and purifying natural gas. The marketing and commercial distribution of these products to consumers and end users in a number of forms including natural gas, diesel oil, petrol, gasoline, lubricants, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, heating oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as well as a number of other types of petrochemicals. Midstream is generally classified under the downstream category.
The largest volumes of products of the oil and gas industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is the primary material for a multitude of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, solvents, and plastics. Petroleum is therefore integral to many industries and is of critical importance to many nations as the foundation of their industries.
In recent years there has been a growing negative sentiment towards the oil and gas industry and "big energy". Major environmental disasters such as the Deepwater HorizonGulf Of Mexico Oil Spill have cast a negative spotlight upon the industry. The trend towards Renewable and Alternative energy is also another threat to traditional oil and gas companies. Coupled with the rise in pro-eco legislation and governmental pressure has meant the oil and gas industry is under more scrutiny than ever.

What Is Fracking?

You’ve heard of fracking, and you’re pretty sure lots of people don’t like it, but do you know how it actually works?
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Fracking. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s controversial. But you might not know what it actually involves. Never fear: We’re here to put some fracking knowledge in your brain.
Fracking is the delightfully cheeky-sounding nickname for Hydraulic Fracturing... which sounds a little bit less delightful and more like something you do to your enemies in Starcraft. But no! It is something we do to rocks.
In the simplest terms, hydraulic fracturing is a way of getting more of the valuable fluids, like oil and natural gas, out of geologic formations under the ground.
Deep under earth’s surface, there are deposits of rock that have huge reserves of oil and natural gas within them. But these fossil fuels aren’t like big lakes where you can just stick a straw in and suck. No, these reserves of oil and natural gas are found locked up in pores distributed throughout vast layers of rock, like shale. So how do you get them out at a reasonable pace?
Let’s look at a typical fracking setup for something like shale gas: You start with a deep, vertical well, drilling a hole down to the level of the shale you want to mine.
The depth will vary, but just for example, one company claims its average fracking well depth is 7,700 feet. That’s deep: almost one and a half miles, or about 2.3 kilometers.
When you’re at the right depth, you take a 90-degree turn and continue to drill horizontally, parallel to the target rock layer. This horizontal section of the well can also travel thousands of feet. Now here’s where the “fracturing” comes in.
First, you open up holes in the horizontal section of the pipe. Then, you vigorously push a liquid cocktail known as fracking fluid down into the borehole under high pressure.
This fracking fluid is usually a mixture of water, some chemical additives -- like acids to help dissolve the rock, and gels to thicken the fluid -- and finally, solid particles called proppants – we’ll get to those in a second.
When the mixture reaches the horizontal section of the pipe, it bleeds out through the holes into the surrounding rock, and the extremely high pressure causes the rock to form tons of little fractures, or cracks. Through these cracks, the reserves of fossil fuels contained in the rock can escape into the well to be pumped back up to the surface.
What once was entombed in ancient rock is now on the way to powering your car or heating the water for your next shower. And those proppants I mentioned, which are often just grains of sand, help “prop” the cracks in the rock open, so the Earth’s precious bodily fluids continue to escape into the well without the miners applying continuous pressure.
So that’s how it works, but then there’s the entirely separate question of whether fracking is a good idea. It’s controversial in many parts of the world.
Some people claim it consumes too much fresh water, and worry about what will be done with the fracking fluid after it’s been used. And some opponents wonder if it will create earthquakes, or cause chemical contaminants to leak into our groundwater.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/hydraulic-fracking.htm/printable
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/how-hydraulic-fracturing-works/?ar_a=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/538082/shale
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladrocks.htm
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/pdfs/ChK_-Hydraulic_Fracturing_Fact_Sheet.pdf

AC Ideal land drilling rig

Our AC Ideal™ land rig is a readily configurable drilling rig with walking capabilities designed for the challenges of shale pad drilling. The AC Ideal rig brings together innovative technology features and proven designs and equipment to enable safer, more effective drilling operations.

Horizontal vs. Vertical Drilling

Natural gas is found throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates, coal and shale. These resources are accessed by drilling vertical, horizontal or multi-lateral wells to the target formation. Visit our Web site to learn more. http://www.powerincooperation.com/EN/Pages/drilling-and-completion.html

CSG multi-well pad drilling: reducing our footprint

Multipad drilling is a technology being used by Australian energy company Santos, to produce natural gas from coal seams in eastern Queensland. The process reduces our environmental footprint by allowing multiple gas wells to be drilled from the same drill pad. The gas will be used to feed GLNG - a leading CSG to liquefied natural gas project.

Solid Controls and Mud System on Land Rigs

Solid control equipment on rigs are those equipment which remove the drilling solids or rock cuttings according to their size. From large to small they are shale shaker, desander, desilter, mud cleaner and centrifuge which remove the smallest size and if desired can remove the weighing materials like Barite. Degaser is not solid control equipment but its job is to remove the gases associated with drilling mud.

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

Safe, cost-effective refinements in hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), horizontal drilling and other innovations now allow for the production of oil and natural gas from tight shale formations that previously were inaccessible. This video introduces the proven techniques used to extract resources from shale formations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Includes Spanish subtitles. For more information, visit: http://www.marathonoil.com/Social_Responsibility/Environmental_Stewardship/Hydraulic_Fracturing/